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33: 1010:, was agglutinative, and most descendant languages inherit this feature. But since agglutination can arise in languages that previously had a non-agglutinative typology, and it can be lost in languages that previously were agglutinative, agglutination as a typological trait cannot be used as evidence of a genetic relationship to other agglutinative languages. The uncertain theory about 763:(to their houses). However, there are other features of the Turkish language that could be considered fusional, such as the suffixes for the simple present tense. This is the only tense where, rather than having a suffix did negation which can be included before the temporal suffix, there are two different suffixes - one for affirmative and one for negative. Giving examples using 702:
Persian has some features of agglutination, making use of prefixes and suffixes attached to the stems of verbs and nouns, thus making it a synthetic language rather than an analytic one. Persian is an SOV language, thus having a head-final phrase structure. Persian utilizes a noun root + plural
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indicates the verb is both in third person and present tense, and cannot be further broken down into a "third person" morpheme and a "present tense" morpheme; this behavior is reminiscent of fusional languages.
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Agglutination is a typological feature and does not imply a linguistic relation, but there are some families of agglutinative languages. For example, the
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We can see its agglutinative nature and the fact that Persian is able to affix a given number of dependent morphemes to a root morpheme, mashin (car).
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and from there again into agglutinative synthetic languages. However, this is just a trend, and in itself a combination of the trend observable in
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Agglutinative languages tend to have a high rate of affixes or morphemes per word, and to be very regular, in particular with very few
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can be isolated and identified as to indicate a particular inflection or derivation, although this is not a rule: for example,
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is a typical agglutinative language, but morphemes are subject to (sometimes unpredictable) consonant alternations called
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of one or more morphemes within a word, usually resulting from a shortening of the word or to make pronunciation easier.
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Despite the occasional outliers, agglutinative languages tend to have more easily deducible word meanings compared to
344: 322: 707:" meaning 'I was looking at their cars' lit. '(cars their at) (look) (i was doing)'. Breaking down the first word: 386: 279: 213: 65: 43: 203: 927: 519: 460: 194: 1095: 366: 284: 183: 178: 142: 1003: 412: 294: 289: 274: 1230: 1193: 980: 515: 511: 265: 260: 240: 1049:. There seems to exist a preferred evolutionary direction from agglutinative synthetic languages to 90: 1147: 1046: 1042: 484: 135: 1062: 1058: 1050: 1019: 577: 456: 163: 156: 703:
suffix + case suffix + post-position suffix syntax similar to Turkish. For example the phrase "
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per affix while fusional languages combine multiple into one. The term was introduced by
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Many languages have developed agglutination. This developmental phenomenon is known as
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portion used to express a politely distanced social context to the intended audience)
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peoples were agglutinative, though none from larger families have been identified:
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proffers that there is a genetic relationship with this proto-language as seen in
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Nicholas Poppe, The Uralo-Altaic Theory in the Light of the Soviet Linguistics
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has only one (or two, depending on how "irregular" is defined); while in the
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The Ethnographer's Magic and Other Essays in the History of Anthropology
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is generally agglutinative, but displays fusion in some nouns, such as
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New York, W.W. Norton and Co., 1944, renewed 1972, pages 53, 190ff.
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and that of general linguistic attrition, especially word-final
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Mouche, Ryan; Renfro, Ashley; Lance, Marshall (May 15, 2019).
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concatenated together, but in such a manner that individual
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Linguistic typology
Morphological
Analytic
Isolating
Synthetic
Fusional
Agglutinative
Polysynthetic
Oligosynthetic
Morphosyntactic
Alignment
Nominative–accusative
Marked nominative
Ergative–absolutive
Split ergative
Symmetrical voice
Active–stative
Tripartite

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